Vintage gay couple photos
In Love and Invisible: Vintage Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Couples from the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
A photographic portrait of a couple serves as a public affirmation of their love and partnership. It conveys a clear message to the world: &#;We love each other. We care deeply for one another. We take pride in who we are together.&#;
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time often associated with repression, many gay and lesbian couples boldly celebrated their love through studio portraits.
Despite the prevailing notion that same-sex relationships were shrouded in secrecy, as famously described by Oscar Wilde in his poem &#;Two Loves&#; as &#;the love that dare not speak its name,&#; gay and lesbian couples often chose to express their affection openly.
In fact, numerous same-sex couples lived together openly throughout their lives. This was notably more feasible for women, as societal norms permitted women to live together if they were not married, often referred to euphemistically as &#;female companions.&#;
For men, opportunities for meeting like-minded
Years of Photographs of Gay Men in Love
Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries offer a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
A beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (–) is part of a new book that offers a visual glimpse of what life may have been like for those men, who went against the law to find treasure in one another’s arms. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love s–s, hundreds of images tell the story of love and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2, photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. While the majority of the images hail from the United States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache.
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Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
&#;Loving&#; features around photos that give an intimate look at men&#;s love between the s and s
When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago, they were startled to see a relationship that looked much like theirs: two men, embracing and clearly in love.
As Dee Swann writes for the Washington Post, the image spoke to the couple about the history of love between men.
“The open expression of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell tell the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk. We were intrigued that a photo like this could have survived into the [21st] century. Who were they?”
In the decades that followed this initial discovery, the pair came across more than 2, photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales a
Vintage gay
I really love this photo of a dapper gay couple from the s. While I don&#;t know who they are, the photo is included in a article posted by the History Channel called, &#;How Gay Culture Blossomed During the Roaring Twenties&#; I highly recommend you check out the article if you&#;re a fan of this weekly post and gay culture / history in general. It is an easy minute study full of information including how (and where) drag started and how for a brief window in time gay men and women had a degree of freedom in a few major cities before the start of the Great Depression and WWII.
I dedicate this weekly publish, featuring vintage gay photographs, to the men and women who lived in a more critical time where being true to yourself and loving who you want wasn’t always an option and came at a wonderful price. Do you have a photo you would like to share? Email me at bosguymail@
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